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The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.


Hunter S. Thompson


#elections

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.


Adlai E. Stevenson II


#lincoln #losing #elections

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.


Paul Collier


#elections #power #elections

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;


Ethan Canin


#elections

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.


Sheri Holman


#election #elections

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.


Cormac McCarthy


#nihilism #philosophy #theology #elections

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.


Barbara Lee


#democracy #elections #last #our #reclaim

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.


Tim Kaine


#elections #notoriously #presidents

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.


Alexei Navalny


#chance #elections #fight #get #i

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.


Ariel Sharon


#both #during #elections #establishment #i






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